Want to smash your goals 100%? Here are 11 recommended tools to help you stay productive
Want to smash your goals 100%? Here are 11 recommended tools to help you stay productive
It's no secret that productivity is vital for career success and personal happiness.
Greetings!
As we near the end of the year and you're already taking stocks to see what you did well and what didn't, it is also a good time to compare our activities vs productivity.
Did we do all we should have done? Did the activity help us to achieve our set goals? Now, that's one way to measure your progress. And to know if you will hit your set goals.
Let's say one of your goals for the year is to do $20k in monthly revenue by mid-2022. To hit this target, what strategy and tactics did you put in place? We are halfway through the 3rd quarter. It's time to take stock.
Being productive.
Being productive is an act and can be a habit. So, whether you hit your goal or not, check your productivity. If your productivity does not beat your activities, then you need to check what you really spend your time on.
While I cannot drive you to productiveness, I have listed below 7 productivity tools that can help you smash your goal, even in this last quarter.
What's productivity? And why the tools?
Productivity measures your output per input. You can calculate per hour spent on your work. Productivity measures how efficient you are at what you do.
While productivity tools are tools - software or hardware, to help simplify your work so you can allocate your time efficiently by doing what really drives your north star.
The 11 productivity tools
An essential tool for scheduling meetings and appointments. One of the crucial benefits of this tool is that it prevents back-and-forth emails you exchange with meeting participants.
Just set your available hours during a week in Calendly, so that anyone who wants to schedule a meeting with you can see when you’re free.
As a creator or business owner, you make use of social media for your business. Hootsuite makes it easy to schedule, monitor, manage and collaborate with your team.
You can also monitor all mentions of topics relevant to you on social media, as well as, create ad campaigns.
Toggl is one of the leading online time tracking tools and productivity apps for freelancers, consultants, and small companies. This platform allows users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze productivity.
Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together to get more done. Their reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones and room systems.
Slack is a desktop and mobile communication app that lets you manage all team communication. Send direct messages, create locked and public channels covering various topics (from company culture to separate company projects and departments), and then communicate with your team in real time.
Trello starts as a free project management software that delivers a Kanban board approach. Use it with your agile or scrum project management methodologies or for personal use. Each task and set of tasks are then grouped on a board. Move your cards to different progress points, depending on the work that has been done and the tasks that still need to be done.
Dropbox is a safe cloud storage service that encrypts the uploaded information for secure file sharing. It lets you back up and shares files, photos and documents without putting your data at risk.
Todoist is a top productivity app to simplify and organize the workday. This simple to-do list app lets you manage personal tasks and collaborate with friends, family, and coworkers.
With Asana, you can assign team members to cards (within a project board) or to-dos (within a project list). You can add attachments, labels, subtasks, descriptions, and comments. You can also mark certain tasks as milestones, define dependencies between tasks, and track your tasks' deadlines in a calendar view.
Loom has helped reinvent work communication tools by helping millions of people get their message across through instantly shareable videos. Its mission is to empower everyone at work to communicate more effectively and get ahead wherever they are.
Notion serves as a workspace for notes, docs, wikis, projects, and collaboration. Use it on your own, with your team, or as an entire company. Get started for free, then add your whole team.
How Increased Productivity Can Improve Your Life
It's no secret that productivity is vital for career success and personal happiness. Productive people are prized assets in the professional world, while productivity brings satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment to an individual.
However, these tools are nothing without the skills behind them. They can improve productivity, but they can't do it alone.
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